Editing New York City Music Scene (section)

===The Brooklyn Scene and the 2000s Revival===

By the early 2000s, rising Manhattan rents had pushed much of the city's bohemian and artistic population across the East River into Brooklyn, particularly into the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and later Bushwick. A new indie rock scene took root there, with bands including Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, TV on the Radio, and Vampire Weekend emerging from the borough's lofts, bars, and DIY spaces.

'''The Strokes''' — five young Manhattanites signed to RCA in 2001 — are often credited with catalyzing an international garage rock revival with their debut album ''Is This It'', one of the most celebrated records of the decade. '''LCD Soundsystem''', the project of James Murphy and the DFA Records collective, fused the sensibilities of post-punk, Krautrock, and New York club culture into a body of work that became one of the defining artistic statements of the 2000s New York underground. Murphy's farewell concert at Madison Square Garden in 2011 was a genuine cultural event.

Meanwhile, New York hip-hop maintained its global stature through the output of artists including Jay-Z, Nas, and the Notorious B.I.G. (whose career and 1997 murder had crystallized the East Coast–West Coast rap rivalry of the 1990s), and later through figures such as Nicki Minaj and ASAP Rocky.